San Juan Historic District


The San Juan Historic District in San Juan, New Mexico is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The listing included 14 contributing buildings and two non-contributing buildings.
It was deemed notable as one of only two typical, well-preserved, Hispanic farming villages in the Mimbres valley, "the leading agricultural area
of Grant County", and for its "unmodified examples of the New Mexico Vernacular type: thirteen residences, a school, a church and a barn."
It is located along what is now New Mexico State Road 61, from address number 2261 to 2291, on a somewhat raised terrace on the west side of the Mimbres River.
All of the buildings are built of adobe and all but two have corrugated metal roofs, and all may be termed Vernacular New Mexico in style. Nine houses have single file pans, two are L-shaped, and one has a rectangular plan. Seven have gable roofs, five have hipped roofs, two have combinations of gable and hipped roofs, and two have shed roofs.
The buildings include:
The two non-contributing buildings are:
The district was listed on the National Register as part of a 1988 study of historic resources in the Mimbres Valley of Grant County.